Latin Neoplatonism · Aristotelian logic · c. 477 – c. 524

Boethius

Seek, in disgrace, the good that fortune cannot take back.

Rome · Ravenna · Pavia

Portraits: artistic interpretations

Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Follow Philosophy’s argument in the Consolation, from the losses inflicted by Fortune to the search for the true good.

Examine how the theological tractates use categories, definitions and axioms to clarify doctrines received through faith.

Reconstruct Porphyry’s three questions and the answer Boethius gives them in his second commentary on the Isagoge.